Soap-dispenser.



E. G. LOVERING.

SOAP DISPENSER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 25, 1915.

1,156,164. Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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ATTORNEY EDWARD G. LOVERING, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SOAP-DISPENSER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1915..

Application filed January 25, 1915. Serial No. 4,216.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Enwann G. Lovnnrxo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Soap-Dispensers, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

'This invention relates to soap dispensers and its object is a cheap and efficient device for dispensing a small quantity of soap for washing the hands or other .purpose.

The device is particularly adapted for use in public places and an additional object is a device that is sanitary in use in which the' cake of soap may not become contaminated by contact with the hands of the user. The device is also useful as waste or loss of the soap is prevented. I am aware of many soap dispensers for majority of which are adapted for use with a liquid soap or a soap powder. In the de vice herein described a cake of soap is placed in the device and by simply grasping the lower open end of the bell shaped discharge tube which is provided with a cutting plate forming a closure for the lower end of the container and rotating the tube and cutter a quantity of soap desired for use is shaved from the cake and drops into the palm of the hand which operation may be continued until practically the entire cake of soap has been utilized.

These and other objects and the various novel features of construction by which they may be attained are hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sec tion taken on line x-m of Fig. 1. is a vertical section of the upper end of the container showing the follower plate in inoperative position. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the cutter in position in the top end of the dispensing or discharge tube.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawing and specification.

The container 1 is preferably tubular in form supported in any convenient manner over or adjacent to a washstand or the like by means of a bracket 2 secured to the consimilar purposes, the

Fig. 3

tainer in any approved manner. The container is provided with oppositely positioned vertical slots 3 and 4, the upper ends of which terminate in horizontal slots 5 extending a short distance at right angles to the vertical slots 3 and 4. A spring 6 is placed in the upper end of the container and a follower plate 7 is provided below the spring loosely fitting in the container and provided withlugs 8 and9 upon opposite sides thereof engaging in the slots 3 and 4 which prevent a rotation of the follower. As shown in Fig. 3, these lugs 8 and 9 have an upturned end projecting outside of the container 1 and by grasping these projecting ends and raising the follower to the upper end of the container, thus compressing the spring, the follower may be turned so that the lugs ride in the circumferential slots .5 and thereby hold the follower in its uppermost position. The purpose of this is to enable the soap to be inserted readily without having to compress the spring in so doing as is hereinafter shown. The follower is provided with a number of punched-holes 10 leaving sharp burs on the lower face of the plate that engage in the upper end of the cake of soap 11 and preventing a rotation of the said cake in the container.

The lower end of the container tube is provided with an external circumferential flange 12 and held in position by this flange is a knurled internally threaded ring 13 adapted to receive the threaded upper end of the dispensing tube 14 as indicated in Fig. 1. The upper end of the tube 14 is counterbored to receive the circular plate 15 in which is formed the oppositely positioned radial cutters 16 and 17 shown in Fig. 4. The ring 13 is also provided with an annular shoulder 18 against which the end of the dispensing tube 14 engages when assembled therewith which prevents binding of the flange 12 between the ring 13 and the tube end thus allowing the ring and dispensing tube to rotate freely on the container; I

he dispensing tube is somewhat bell shaped and the rim about the open end is formed to provide knobs 19 so that the hand may not slip thereon in turning the dispensing tube. The said rim or flange may also be knurled or roughened in any ordinary manner for the same purpose. A

To place the cake of soap in the container, the follower plate 7 is raised to the position shown in Fig. 3. The dispensing tube may then be unscrewed from the supporting ring 13 without liability of the plate 7 being forced out of the container by the spring. 'Iln cake of soap is then inserted and the dispensing tube and cutting plate screwed into the holding ring. The follower may then be turned to allow the lugs 8 and 9 to ride in the vertical slots -3 and 4, and the spring forces the plate onto the top of the cake of soap and forcing the lugs or burs on the lower side thereof into the case.

In operation the lower open mouth of the dispensing tube is grasped by the hand of the user with the palm thereof directly under the month of the tube and by turning the tube to the right the knives 1G and 17 willshave a portion of the soap from the cake which is forced. down onto the knives by an action of the spring 6. Ihese shavings of soap will fall directly into the hand of the user and the follower plate and spring will act until practically all of the soap has been discharged from the container.

It is to be noted that the ring 13 riding on the flange 12 of the container is of such thickness that the burs 10 on the follower plate can not be engaged by the knives as the lugs 8 and 9 project out through the slots and when brought to their lowermost positionengage the top of this ring preventing further downward movement of the follower plate.

Having thus briefly described my invention, its utility and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent of the United States is 1. In a soap dispenser, a container for a cake of soap having an open, circumferentially flanged, lower end, a ring supported on the flange, a dispensing tube supported by the ring, a cutter carried in the upper end of the dispensing tube providing a closure for the container, the lower end of the dispensing tube being formed to provide a hand-hold, and means for holding a cake of soap in contact with the cutter.

2. In a soap dispenser, a cylindrical container having a lower open end provided with a circiunferential flange, a ring supported by said flange, said ring being provided with an internally threaded portion,

end of the supported on the flange,

a dispensing tube threaded for engagement with said ring, the upper end of said tube being annularly recessed, a plate provided with radial cutters carried in said recess providing a closure for the container, said dispensing tube being formed to provide a hand-hold and also being adapted to seat in the ring whereby the ring and tube. are freely rotatable on the container flange, and means for holding a cake of soap in contact with the cutter.

In a soap dispenser, a cylindrical container having a lower open end provided with a circumferential flange. a ring having a flange engaging over the flange of the container and rotatable thereon, said ring having an annular threaded recess, a dispensing tube threaded for engagement in said ring and seating in said recess whereby the tube is held from frictional contact with the end of the container, the threaded end of the dispensing tube having an annular internal recess, a plate supported in said recess provided with radial cutters forming a closure for the container: the lower end of said tube being formed to provide a hand-hold, and means for holding a cake of soap in contact with the cutter.

4. In a soap dispenser, a container for a cake of soap having a lower open end provided with a circumferential flange, a ring a dispensing tube supported by the ring and held from frictional contact with the end of the container whereby the tube and ring are freely rotatable relative to the container when assembled, a cutter carried in the upper end of the dispensing tube providing a closure for the container, the lower open end of the dispensing tube being greater in diameter than the container end thereof, said lower end of the tube having an external serrated flange providing a hand-hold, and means for holding a cake of soap in contact with the container.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

EDIVARD G. LOVERING.

Witnesses F. M. JOHNSON, CHARLES E. VVIsnnR. 

